Six Delicious Ways to Celebrate National Dessert Day

The sweet indulgence of dessert can cap off a great meal, lift your mood, and bring people together. Here are six ideas for celebrating National Dessert Day on October 14 th, along with gadgets and accessories that make it easier to prep irresistible treats with your special homemade touch.

Pressed Cookies The fastest, easiest way to make decorative homemade cookies is with a cookie press. The Kuhn Rikon Clear Cookie Press comes with 14 interchangeable decorative disks. The press has aclear barrel to see the dough inside, and its one-handed operation easily makes uniform cookies one after the other.

Layer Cakes How do experts create perfect multi-layer cakes? The Frieling Layer Cake Slicer makes it easy to slice up to 8 uniform layers, for filling with frosting, whipped cream, ganache, fruit spreads and more. Made in Germany to the highest quality standards, the kit includes an adjustable slicing mold, 12-inch serraTed Baker's knife and a handy 11-inch cake lifter.

Homemade Candy Whether it's chocolate, hard candy, toffee or fudge, candy is easy to make at home, with the right candy thermometer. The CDN Candy & Deep Fry Ruler Thermometer is waterproof and comes with a color-coded temperature scale and a clip for securing to a pot.

Ice Pops Freeze your favorite flavors for a frosty, fun treat. The patented Zoku Quick Pop Maker makes colorful pops from yogurt, fruit juice, chocolate and more, including striped pops and flavored core pops, right on your countertop. It freezes them, without electricity, in as little as seven minutes.

Frothed Flavors One of the biggest dessert trends started with specialty coffees with frothed milk and expanded with additions of chocolate, sugar and flavorings. Create dessert in a cup with the Capresso froth MAX, for professional quality frothing at the touch of a button. Three temperature settings hot, warm and cold open up a variety of delicious options, including decadent hot chocolate.

A Toast Whether it's an accompaniment to dessert or dessert itself, your dessert wine deserves the right glass to reveal its subtleties and flavors. Tasting becomes perfection with Peugeot's Les Impitoyables collection of mouth blown glassware. Each style of wine has its own glass shape to reveal its quintessence: Les Impitoyables #1 for dessert wines and #4 for sparkling wines.

SOURCE Kuhn Rikon, Frieling, CDN, Zoku, Capresso, Peugeot

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